Words on Benedict XVI from a man who is as much a Benaddict in his own way as we are:
'The most intelligent mind in the world
sits on the Chair of Peter'
by James Schall, S.J.
From an interview with
I think the present Pope, as well as the previous one, were marvels of the Catholic mind, a mind that comes to grips with all things, yet with the light of grace and revelation. ..
What is peculiar to Catholicism, I have always thought, is its refusal to leave anything out. In my short book, The Regensburg Lecture, I was constantly astonished at the enormous range of the mind of the present Holy Father. There is simply no mind in any university or public office that can match his. He is a humble man, in fact.
It is embarrassing to the world, and often to Catholic "intellectuals," to find that its most intelligent mind is on the Chair of Peter. I have always considered this papal intellectual profundity to be God's little joke to the modern mind.
The modern mind has built up for itself theories and ideologies whereby it prevents itself from seeing the truth that a man like Benedict XVI spells out for it in lucid and rigorously argued terms – terms fully aware and familiar with all of modern philosophy itself.
But Benedict XVI is a messenger of the Logos.
We do not get around his mind. We only shy away from considering it.
The full interview with Fr. Schall has been posted in the NOTABLES thread.[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 15/11/2009 19:03]